Majority Report

Majority Report

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Hosted by Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland. MR is an unbought, unbossed daily political talk show. Awarded @PodcastAwards Best Political Podcast 5 times #LeftIsBest https://majorityreportradio.com/about

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@majorityreport.bsky.social just resurfaced this memory for me a couple hours ago. Yes, the GOP has always been like this even mitt Romney. Perhaps especially mitt Romney. www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/u...

cnn.comRomney’s ‘helpful to be Latino’ comment met with sarcasm, humor | CNNBy Alicia W. Stewart, CNN (CNN) — Just as Mitt Romney’s campaign ramped up outreach to Latino voters at the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, his “off the cuff comments” that it “would be helpful to b...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

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🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.

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Donald Trump has spent two years attacking Minnesota, and Michele would be “honored" to have his support. That's everything you need to know about Michele Tafoya.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Minnesota GOP Senate candidate Michele Tafoya says she would be "honored" to have Trump's endorsement

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Three things Congress could pass to lower your bills: universal healthcare so a hospital stay doesn't become debt, repeal the tariffs that act as a tax on working families and universal child care so parents can get back to work. #AngieForFlorida

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Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.

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heather mac donald is one of the biggest racists in the public sphere, what a disgrace this is

Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social

As murder rates plummet to a 20-year low, why are so many American cities still grappling with disorder? In @themimsshow.bsky.social, Carine Hajjar sits down with Heather Mac Donald to explore “teen takeovers,” pushback against progressive prosecutors and more.

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NEW: The collusive deal between Trump and his own appointees to shield himself, his family and his businesses from ongoing and future tax audits violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause. So we filed an amicus brief saying so.

citizensforethics.orgTrump’s IRS deal violates the Domestic Emoluments Clause - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in WashingtonThe collusive IRS deal that President Trump entered constitutes a violation of the Constitution’s Domestic Emoluments Clause.

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Peter Kauffmann helps lead a billionaire-funded network intervening in Democratic primaries — while representing a front group fighting to keep your credit fees high.

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🚨 NEW: Former Rep. Max Rose is on cable championing centrist Democrats — while advising a $75 million, Big Tech-funded political operation working to defeat candidates who threaten tougher AI regulation. That industry role hasn’t been disclosed in his TV appearances.

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While the 911 calls we obtained may be difficult to listen to, they offer a glimpse into a place reporters cannot access. And they show failures in responding to mental health and medical emergencies in a place where three people died over six weeks.

propublica.orgListen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

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Legislators in several states have passed, or are considering, laws to push back against the federal government’s overreach under the second Trump administration. These statues are modeled off of older laws in Maine and California.

boltsmag.orgThis Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - BoltsFederal law makes it very difficult to file lawsuits against federal officers, but some states have adopted their own laws to give people a so-called cause of action to sue.

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El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

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thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

MacFarlane: I think it's an anti-establishment era we may be entering here. Look at all the different ways in which people are bucking against establishment. If El-Sayed is somebody who channels people who don't want the establishment to run and to reign, he's going to have a big night…

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This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

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this is so fucking disgusting.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

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On to the next one. Here's a strange special election to replace Eric Swalwell in 2 weeks. Melissa Hernandez & Aisha Wahab have gone head-to-head twice since June. Wahab won by over 20 points both times. But every AIPAC shell PAC & AIPAC itself are still coming in 10:1 for Hernandez.

prospect.orgThe AIPAC Universe Comes Together for Sequel in California - The American ProspectAn array of super PACs is trying to muscle through Melissa Hernandez in a low-turnout special election for a Bay Area House seat.

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First Draft: Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever? @premthakker.bsky.social was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC. Read today’s ‘First Draft’: zeteo.com/p/will-this-...

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VoteHub projects Abdul El-Sayed to win the Democratic primary for Michigan U.S. Senate.

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According to Representative Jimmy Gomez, immigrant detainees are being temporarily transferred from Metro Detention Center in Los Angeles to a facility in Santa Ana due to expected protests this weekend.

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Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

welt.deIn eigener Sache: Peter Thiel erhält den Axel Springer Award 2026 - WELTUnternehmer und Investor Peter Thiel ist der diesjährige Preisträger des Axel Springer Awards. Die Auszeichnung soll auch ein Zeichen für Meinungsfreiheit und offene Debatten sein.

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For instance, I love Francesca Hong! I shared some of that in this piece, but it's ok if you want a different candidate! Just make a first person case for why you like them, one that doesn't involve any weird triangulation or guesses about other people's votes. thewhitepages.net/p/the-real-e...

thewhitepages.netThe real electability is the friends we make along the wayWhat the entire country can learn from Francesca Hong's campaign for Governor of Wisconsin

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They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO

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Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

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Remarks on a podcast about Black establishment politicians who "defang the white left" were supposed to sink Will Lawrence. They were picked up for a radio ad from the CBC's PAC. But then something happened: local Black leaders defended him and said he was spot on. prospect.org/2026/07/17/c...

prospect.orgAs the CBC Condemns Will Lawrence, Local Black Leaders Back Him Up - The American ProspectOn a podcast, Lawrence said Black establishment leaders’ support for the status quo ‘is a big problem.’ Black voters and leaders in Michigan agreed with him.